Politics Quotes · Page 295

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

— Paul Kantner

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

— Alice Cooper

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

— Doug Liman

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

— Ani DiFranco

Like any other, this is an industry where complexes, ego and politics abound.

— Kovai Sarala

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

— John Oliver

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

— Ansel Adams

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

— Hannah Arendt

“That government is best which rules least," quoted in Torbet. Leland was a Baptist spokesman and pastor who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa…

— Robert G. Torbet

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there…

— Chris Patten

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say…

— Iain Duncan Smith

There's people on the left who refuse to consider that anybody but the government can solve any of their problems.

— Kat Timpf

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our…

— Anonymous

“Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard,…

— Mike Corbett

“...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it…

— Douglas Wilson

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of…

— Aga Khan IV

“My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life’s minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of…

— Chuck Klosterman

“...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And…

— Shawn Lawrence Otto

“Will the adoption of this new plan pay our debts! This, Sir, is a plain question. It is inferred, that our grievances…

— Patrick Henry

All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it…

— Vilfredo Pareto

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which…

— Friedrich Engels

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have…

— Thomas Jefferson

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics.…

— Nick Clegg

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

— Tabare Vazquez

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

— Murray Kempton

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

— Newt Gingrich

The political system, folks, is rigged. It's a rigged, disgusting, dirty system.

— Brian Stelter

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

— Pierre Trudeau

None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.

— Sushma Swaraj

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

— Jonah Goldberg

Vote for me because I have a clear vision and have experience working at the top of Government.

— Suella Braverman

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

— Richard Whately

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

— Clive James

I promise you I try very hard to stay out of party politics. I run away from it.

— Dido Harding

“Your friends dress like your enemies, and your enemies dress like your friends.”

— Mark M. Bello

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

— Erik Naggum

I resolved to try to steer clear of politics. That wasn't easy.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

— Matt Blunt